Smina Bluthis a Berlin-based freelance Director of Photography working across feature films, art and experimental film, documentary and commercial productions. They collaborate internationally.
Smina graduated from Hochschule für Film und Fernsehen Potsdam in 2011 with a diploma in cinematography. They are a member of CINEMATOGRAPHINNEN – WOMEN CINEMATOGRAPHERS NETWORK.
Since 2018, Smina has been a tutor at MET Film School Berlin, and since 2023 a guest lecturer at IFS – International Film School Cologne.
Awards & Recognition
In 2010, Smina was nominated for Best Cinematography at IFFF Dortmund+Köln for their work as DoP on the experimental
short film The Multitude Is Feverish by Vika Kirchenbauer.
The short film Shift by Alex Gerbaulet won the Main Prize of the German Competition at the International Short Film
Festival Oberhausen in 2015, as well as the German Film Critics Prize.
Smina was selected for Berlinale Talents in 2016.
Their debut feature film Neubau wins Best Picture and Best Socially Relevant Film at the Max Ophüls Preis in 2020.
The film was pre-selected for the German Film Prize (“Lola”) in 2021 and went on to receive the German Film Critics
Prize for Best Debut in 2020. Jonja by Anika Mätzke won, among other awards, the Baden-Württembergischer Filmpreis
for Best Feature Film in 2023.